Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

frtib.gov

The Official FRTIB Homepage

Page Load Speed

539 ms in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

318 ms

Page Rendered

119 ms

frtib.gov screenshot

About Website

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The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board's (FRTIB) business home page is intended for those interested in the administrative business aspects of the Board, as opposed to Plan information at tsp....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Frtib.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 437 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

frtib.gov performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.139

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.frtib.gov

102 ms

form.css

27 ms

superfish.css

24 ms

jquery-1.9.0.js

68 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.0.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Frtib.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (166 ms) belongs to the original domain Frtib.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 673.2 kB (72%)

Content Size

941.3 kB

After Optimization

268.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Frtib.gov main page is 941.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 734.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 17.0 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 3.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 13.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 147.6 kB
  • After minification 144.7 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. FRTIB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 621.8 kB

  • Original 734.4 kB
  • After minification 438.3 kB
  • After compression 112.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 621.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 42.2 kB
  • After minification 28.3 kB
  • After compression 6.8 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Frtib.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (27%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FRTIB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

frtib.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

frtib.gov best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

frtib.gov SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Frtib.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Frtib.gov main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of FRTIB. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: